We’re thrilled to announce the 18 wonderful new plays as part of our upcoming Spring 2024 season, co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, Macrobert Arts Centre and Traverse Theatre. 2024 is our 20th anniversary and in that time we have produced almost 600 new plays and launched the careers […]
Like countless others across the country and world, we have been distraught following the events unfolding in the Middle East. The attack on Israel by Hamas was horrific, and we sincerely hope that the hostages are returned to their loved ones safely and as soon as possible. We do not condone this action in any […]
Submissions are now open for the David MacLennan Award 2023/24! In honour of our late founder and his unrelenting belief that anyone could give theatre a go, this prize is about uncovering new writing talent in Scotland and giving an opportunity to someone who has never written a professionally produced play before. The winner will […]
We are pleased to announce a new writing commission opportunity in collaboration with Sanctuary Queer Arts! After working together successfully on The Devil Drinks Cava by JD Stewart earlier this year, we’re delighted to work with Sanctuary Queer Arts to bring a new queer play to life in 2024. This exciting commission is about finding […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce its Autumn 2023 season featuring 12 exciting new plays themed around Tales of Coming Home, co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Traverse Theatre. The season begins on Monday 4 September at Òran Mór, Glasgow with Forever Home, […]
***Applications Closed*** A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is pleased to be able to offer the role of Resident Director (Marilyn Imrie Fellowship) who will work alongside the Artistic Director and wider team for our Autumn 2023 season. This fixed term position would suit an early to mid-career Director who is keen to […]
***Applications Closed*** A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to host the next Scottish Casting Workshop in Glasgow on Thursday 6 July 2023. Scottish Casting Workshop (SCW) is a free workshop run by actors for actors. It allows those casting in Scotland to meet actors living in Scotland in greater numbers. Jemima […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce the cast of Leopards Ate My Face, a new comedy by Outlander star Grant O’Rourke about the dangers of letting your paranoia take the wheel. This production marks our second time co-presenting with Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival after the well-received The Infernal […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is excited to reveal the cast of Quietus, the final instalment in Matthew McVarish’s ‘Life and Death’ trilogy of plays. Co-presented with Ayr Gaiety, this new production centres on Donald, a man living on the spectrum with a crippling fear of the outside world, who gets assigned […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce the cast of Davina & Goliath by David Bailie and Dave Anderson, a new comedy-drama about a woman who is in jail after protesting again Faslane’s nuclear weapons plant. This new play stars Elaine Mackenzie Ellis as the titular Davina alongside Tom McGovern […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce that its acclaimed musical SCOTS will be performing at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Made in Scotland showcase. Following its sell-out run at Òran Mór and upcoming concert performance at 54 Below in New York, SCOTS will return to […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce the cast of Faye’s Red Lines by Ian Pattison (Rab C Nesbitt) about a woman who has an unexpected revelation that triggers her buried past and forces her to take stock of her solitary life. Directed by Liz Carruthers, this new play stars […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce the cast of Welcome to Bannockburn by Lesley Hart, co-presented with Macrobert Arts Centre, about a father and daughter stuck working together at a five-star historical attraction in Stirling. Directed by Julie Ellen (Artistic Director at Macrobert Arts Centre), this new play stars […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce the cast of Storytelling by Oliver Emanuel, a new comedy-drama about how the power of stories can overcome the darkest moments in life. Directed by Finn den Hertog (Associate Artist at National Theatre of Scotland), this new play stars Martin Donaghy (549: Scots […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint will be celebrating its 20th anniversary next year and to mark this milestone, we want to publish a book with 20 plays from our last twenty years in one lovely collection. To make this a reality, we have launched a Crowdfunder campaign to raise £3000 to help us […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is thrilled to announce that Noisemaker’s acclaimed musical SCOTS is off to New York this April as part of the city’s iconic Tartan Week; an annual celebration and gathering of Scottish business, enterprise and culture. The rousing musical, playfully retelling the history of Scotland on stage, is […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce the cast of The Spark by Kathy McKean, a new play about a woman who develops telekinetic powers after decades of suppressed rage that shows the ways a woman can and cannot remake her life and her world. Directed by Gordon Barr (Artistic […]
Aodhan Gallagher has written a blog about their inspirations and experience of writing this new comedy-drama centred around two gay men from very different generations. “I am not a gay writer. I am a writer who happens to be gay”– Edward Albee I remember coming across this quote in an article when I was at […]
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to announce the cast of Variant, the 50th professionally produced play by Peter Arnott who returns to Òran Mór after The Signalman, winner of Best Production at the 2020 CATS awards. Directed by Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir (Sandcastles, hang), this new play stars Meghan Tyler (Pride […]
We’re delighted to announce the cast of our new comedy-drama Write-Off, co-presented with Traverse Theatre, in association with Dundee Rep. This witty show exploring the conflicting beliefs of two equally stubborn gay men from diffrerent generations stars Richard Conlon (My Left Right Foot, Spuds, The Whip Hand) and Bailey Newsome (1902, Oor Wullie: The Musical). […]
Áine King, winner of our David MacLennan Award, describes her experience writing this dark comedy and about the award process: “So, what’s your play about?” someone asks… And I know if I say the Climate Crisis, their eyes will glaze over… I almost didn’t write Burning Bright. I was working on something else entirely when […]
We’re delighted to announce the cast of our new mini-musical The Worm Who Turned, co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts and Ayr Gaiety. This show about marrows, mayhem and murder will star George Drennan (Dracula Revamped), Helen Logan (The Golden Rage, Jack and The Beanstalk) and Clare Waugh (Karen Pirie, River City). Written by Kim Millar, […]
Our second of the show is Burning Bright, the winner of the David MacLennan Award 2022. Hannah Jarrett-Scott (Pride & Prejudice* (sort of*), Alright Sunshine), Suzanne Magowan (The Steamie, Fibres) and Adam Buksh star as three people entangled in the world’s climate crisis. Written by Áine King and directed by Roxana Haines, this powerful drama […]
We’re very excited to reveal the cast of Until It’s Gone, the first show of our Spring 2023 season! This new dark comic-drama stars Sean Connor, best known for playing series regular Dylan Christie in River City, and Billy Mack who returns to PPP after The Scurvy Ridden Whale Men and Divided in 2019. Written […]
